GLENN, May (DeFord)

GLENN, DEFORD, LEE, ALTEKRUSE, MILLER, WHITE, BAKER, SCOTT, DAVIS, KEMP, BROOKS, GRAVES, WILCOX, KIER, BENSCOTER, ROSS, BACON, LING, GREGG, VANDERSHULE, HARMER, LYBARGER, POWLES

Posted By: Betty Franks (email)
Date: 10/11/2005 at 17:40:34

Glenwood Opinion Tribune
October 30, 1941

Funeral Services For Mrs. Glenn

Services Held in Raynor Chapel Thursday Afternoon for Mrs. Walter Glenn Who Passed Away Tuesday Morning.

Mrs. Walter Glenn passed away at her home here in the early hours of Tuesday morning following an illness of some weeks from heart trouble.

Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon in Raynor Chapel in this city conducted by Rev. Wm. D. Lee, formerly of Bartlett, now of Elliot, he became a close family friend. Musis for the service was furnished by a quartet composed of Mrs. Orley Altekruse, Ruth Miller, Tom White and Gerald Baker with Mrs. Tom White at the piano. The ladies in charge of the flora tributes were Mrs. Mary Scott, Mrs. Fred Davis, Mrs. Frank Kemp, Mrs. Claude Brooks, Mrs. Reed Graves and Mrs. Joe Wilcox. Those serving as pallbearers were Orton Kier, Wilbur Benscoter, O.M. Ross, Argil Bacon, Ervin Ling and John Gregg.

The body was laid to rest in the Glenwood cemetery.

May DeFord, daughter of Thomas and Jessie DeFord, was born near Bartlett, Iowa, May 8, 1896. She grew to womanhood in the Bartlett community.

On March 2, 1918, she was united in marriage to Walter S. Glenn. One son, Alfred, was born to this union. Alfred preceded his mother in death, March 6,1940.

May was a devoted wife and mother with her life centered around her home and family. She united with the Christian church of Bartlett by baptism in September of 1909. She was a past noble grand of Woodland Rebekah Lodge No. 552, and a member of Supreme Forest Woodman Circle.

For the past year she had been in failing health. Five weeks ago she was taken to the Jennie Edmundson hospital in Council Bluffs where all was done that could be, but a few days after being brought to her home here in Glenwood, she departed this life, at the age of 45 years, five months and 20 days.

She is survived by her husband, Walter; her mother, Mrs. W.L. Powles of Bartlett and three sisters, Mrs. Bert Vandershule, of Glenwood, Mrs. B.W. Harmer of Pacific Junction, Mrs. Clark Lybarger of Shenandoah, several nieces and nephews and many friends, all of whom are saddened by her untimely death.